Chapter 265: Zhang Hengfa Burned the Eight Kings Yang Xuangan escaped from the mountains
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"Bomb ---," Luo Cheng shouted in horror.
The soldiers of the White Horse, who had already put down their crossbow arrows and held grenades in their hands, were waiting for the opportunity to drop their bombs. After hearing the order to drop the bomb, he got up and threw the few grenades in his hand towards the outside of the wall.
3,000 bombardment grenades exploded in the vicinity, and 3,000 soldiers were nearly deaf, enough to suppress the attacking rebels.
The tragic and bloody scene first made the attacking rebels collapse! No one dares to take a step forward anymore, and to take a step forward is death. The incessant sound of explosions was mixed with the screams of people and the stumps flying everywhere, and no one dared to take a step forward, regardless of the generals of the various teams urging behind.
The battlefield of Shura, hell on earth, morale collapsed. The whole army fled backwards and ran, trampling on each other, and no one could stop drinking.
"Alas! Defeated, defeated again! How is it good? Tang Xian, the general of the Jinan Army, returned to the big tent dejectedly and said. The kings in the tent were as stunned as wood carvings, and had nothing to say.
In this battle, the rebels suffered 30,000 casualties. What is even more desperate is that the morale of the army has been greatly defeated, and there is no way to fight anymore.
The kings in the big tent of the Chinese army looked at each other, hung their heads and said nothing, and there was nothing they could do.
"If you don't want to die, you can only imitate Shanyang Gong Du Fuwei and please surrender!" Meng Haigong, King of Songyi in Caozhou, lowered his head and said. Anyway, his wife is now in the hands of the Jin army, and he can reunite his husband and wife if he descends, which is also an acceptable result, as for whether he can retain the throne after the surrender, it will be a matter for the future.
"Brother Wang, maybe fight again?" Wang Shichong ignored Meng Haigong with a crying voice and asked.
"Most of our troops have been lost, their morale is completely gone, and they can't fight." Tang Xian said dejectedly.
"King Luoyang, this king has long heard that your sister will be the princess of Jin, then Yang Guang is your brother-in-law, why fight if your life is safe?" Liu Wuzhou, the king of Dingyang, said.
"Alas! Mo tire. This is Yang Guangyi's joke! What do Brother Shen and Brother Gao think? ”
"The two of us originally had no holiday with Yang Guang, but with the intention of the alliance leader." Shen Faxing looked at Gao Tansheng beside him and said.
"Alas! I have no food in the army, and it is useless to fight again, so let's surrender! and all kings may be killed. Wang Shichong said helplessly, there was silence in the tent, only a sigh.
"General Luo, look." Zhang Debin, the general of Hangu Guan, shouted suddenly, causing several generals on the side to stare into the distance with wide eyes, only to see six carriages launched in the rebel camp, but there were six people tied up in the carts.
"Hurry up and report General Li Jing." Seeing this, Luo Cheng hurriedly ordered Zhang Debin. Zhang Debin heard this, and hurriedly turned around and went to the back camp to report.
"General Luo, the people tied up in the car are all anti-kings! The last general recognized Liu Wuzhou, the king of Dingyang. General Xiao Chi Gong said to Luo Cheng.
"Hmmm! The person who was tied up on the car in the center was Wang Shichong, the leader of the rebel alliance, who seemed to have surrendered by himself. Luo Cheng said coldly.
"General, General Li Jing and General Han Lao are here." Wan Xurong, the general behind him, suddenly shouted.
Soon, Li Jing and Han Baohu went up to the wall and looked at the six prisoner cars that had reached a stone's throw and were side by side.
"Old General Han, I am Wang Shichong! Now I wish to bow down and surrender, and not fight. Wang Shichong has already seen that the white-bearded veteran on the wall is Han Baohu, who he has seen in the capital.
"Huh! Okay, you Wang Shichong! I also know that there is today. Count you to know the current affairs, stand still. Han Baohu put his hand on the pergola and looked at the carriages in front of him, and he also knew that the person in the middle of the carriage was Wang Shichong, so he shouted loudly.
The gate was wide open, and the one who rushed out of the gate with hundreds of soldiers was a group of martial arts generals. I saw that this group of young generals escorted an anti-king into the pass for each of them, and came to Li Jing and Han Baohu.
"Escorted into the prisoner car, Wei Chi Jingde listened to the order and ordered you to escort the kings to the lord of Wagang Mountain." Li Jing looked at the 7 anti-kings tied up in front of him plus a general under Tang Bi, and said sharply.
"Subordinates obey! Hehe! Wei Chigong grinned happily as if he had received the most desired order. All the generals were also envious when they heard this.
The overall situation has been decided, and the hundreds of thousands of rebels outside the pass have all laid down their swords and guns and accepted the takeover of the Luzhou Jin army.
At this point, the Battle of Tongguan ended. At the cost of hundreds of casualties, Li Jingbu of the Luzhou Jin army killed and wounded more than 60,000 anti-king troops in the Central Plains, and forced 350,000 rebels to land, and finally won a great victory.
When the news reached Tongguan, Yang Lin, the king of the backer, was so excited that he couldn't help himself, as if he was 10 years younger all of a sudden, and he was very happy. The two generals were also very happy.
Tong Huan and Hua Gongming felt that it should be like this, and they were not surprised, but they just smiled.
Hangu Pass Li Jingjun Tent.
There were only four people in the tent: Li Jing, Luo Cheng, Wei Chigong and Zhang Debin. Li Jing looked at the three generals with a serious face.
"Debin, this is Wang Shichong's handwritten letter to Yang Gongqing and Guo Shiheng, the generals of the Luoyang garrison, this marshal ordered you to send it to Luoyang City in person, if Yang Guo and the two of them open the city and surrender, then it's enough, if you don't slow down and come back to report to me."
"The last will obey. Then the horse went to Luoyang. Zhang Debin was excited when he heard the order, this is an opportunity to teach martial arts to give himself a meritorious service, Luoyang is the largest city in the Central Plains, if it is won in his own hands, what a merit this is, how not to be excited? Like Wan Xurong, Hong Tianyi and other classmates, they are not envious to death!
watched Zhang Debin go out with an excited face. Li Jing turned his head again and said to Luo Cheng and Wei Chi Gong with a calm face: "General Luo, Wei Chi Lao Hei, there is a big thing for the two of you to do today, I don't know if you have the guts?" ”
"General, is there anything big that a certain general would not dare to do? But it doesn't hurt to talk about it. Luo Cheng asked, and the bewildered Wei Chigong was also listening.
"Lao Hei will escort the seven anti-kings and a Jinan rebel general to Wagang Mountain tomorrow to deliver the lord's fate, and this commander orders you to go to Gucheng tonight and buy the "Junlai Inn" in the city. ”
"General, why is that?" Luo Cheng asked puzzled.
"Ben Shuai wants you to buy this inn and buy more firewood and grass. When Yu Chi Laohei escorted eight people to arrive, he burned down the inn with a fire at night, and only took the skulls of eight people to Wagang to see the lord to restore his life. ”
"Ahh Luo Chengshang was able to calm down, but he heard Wei Chi Gong on the side shouting with round eyes.
"General Lee, why is that? Was it the Lord's dictation? Luo Cheng asked a little puzzled.
"Huh! It is not the intention of the lord, but the lord wants to map the Central Plains, and it is useless to leave the lives of these seven anti-kings. The lord is merciful, if he takes eight people up the mountain, the lord will not bear to kill, so he will be escorted back to the capital and handed over to His Majesty. We are the confidants and generals under the Lord's seat, and we should share the worries of the Lord. If you can't bear to do it, let Luo Shixin do it. After Li Jing finished speaking, he looked at Luo Cheng with cold eyes.
"Huh! Now that the words have been clarified, this errand was accepted, and the eight people were sent back to the west with a fire. How are you, old black? Luo Cheng said with a sneer.
"Hey, hey! For the great cause of the Lord, don't take the credit for this hand! Lao Hei first touched the darkness and entered the house to reward each person with a knife, and personally lit a fire to send him on the road. ”
"Good! This incident was considered an accident, understand? Don't make it difficult for the lord. ”
"Understood." Luo Cheng and Wei Chigong said in unison.
When Luo Cheng and Wei Chigong came out of the Chinese military tent, a person flashed out from behind the screen, and Li Jing saw it and said in a low voice: "Inspector Zhang, do you have to do this poisonous plan?" He has already returned to my lord. ”
"Huh! General Daoxing has some dirty work, I can't wait for the lord to do it, do I want the lord to do it himself? Think about it, who among the kings is true to my lord? And most of them are implicated in Yang in the DPRK, if they don't take advantage of this to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, it will become a big disaster in the future. The person who spoke was actually Zhang Heng, the commander of the Luzhou Supervision Office, who had made a special trip from Luzhou to screen the identity of the general.
"I hope the lord doesn't blame me for making my own decisions."
"General Daoxing rest assured, if the lord is to blame, a certain general will bear it with all his might, and will never implicate the general. Besides, the lord's original intention was to cut the domain, if these kings don't die, how can we talk about cutting the domain? ”
"The inspector is right, and the general will be taught." Li Jing suddenly came to his senses, and hurriedly got up and bowed to Zhang Heng, secretly praising Zhang Heng in his heart for his long-term vision and ruthlessness, which was not comparable to himself.
"It's a pity that I ran away with Yang Xuangan, Li Mi really has good means!" For the two people who were already on the must-kill list to escape again, Zhang Heng couldn't help but feel angry.
In the next two days, with the intervention of hundreds of cadres from Zhang Heng's Inspectorate, 100,000 of the 350,000 troops were selected to be charged into Li Jing's army, and the remaining 250,000 people were all turned into open canals and sent to Liyang City. They need to work in the canal that is about to be dug for a year, and then they can regain their freedom after the canal is opened.
Let's talk about Yang Xuangan and Li Mi who fled into the deep mountains and dense forests in the south after robbing grain.
After nearly 20 days of jungle trekking, more than 5,000 people died of falling off cliffs, drowning across rivers, bitten by poisonous snakes, and suffering from jungle diseases. The rest of the soldiers who were still following were all in rags, and many of them had blood marks from thorns.
This is especially true of Zhu Deng, who has been leading the way in front, with an extremely thin face, only a pair of hideous eyes vigilantly searching the road in the jungle every day, and a face that is particularly gloomy day by day, like a little ghost who has just crawled out of hell.
"Report to the little prince, there is no road ahead, just a cliff."
"Stop advancing, Rong will go and consult with his father-in-law." After listening to Zhu Deng's order, the more than 1,000 people who opened the road immediately relaxed, and each found a meadow and a mountain rock to sit or lie down to rest.
"Father-in-law, military advisor, there is no way ahead, there are cliffs, and you need to detour again." Zhu Deng came to Yang Xuangan and Li Mi, who were staggering forward with the Chinese army, and said.
"I have waited for the difficult march of the 20th, and I have bypassed the remaining veins of Huashan, and it is estimated that I will be able to cross the forest sea and enter the Shangluo area after traveling 400 miles to the south. There is no big mountain ahead, and even if there is a cliff, it will not be too high, so that the soldiers can go down with ropes without having to detour. Li Mi gasped and whispered.
"Tell the soldiers that after crossing this cliff, the whole army will rest, and there is no need to do it again." Yang Xuangan encouraged.
"The child obeys." After Zhu Deng agreed, he turned around and ran to the front again.
Sure enough, under the cliff is obscured by trees, it seems to be very high, but in fact it is only 30 meters, after more than ten ropes are put down, more than 10,000 people in the whole army will descend the cliff in turn, there is a mountain stream not far from the bottom of the cliff, and the soldiers will rely on this water source to set up camp.
"I wonder what is the condition of the kings now? Do you get out of trouble? Yang Xuangan whispered in his military tent, his clothes were barely neat, and Li Mi was barely neat.
"Alas! The food left over from the army of the kings is only enough for 15 days, and if there is no food, the army will be in turmoil, and I am afraid that there will be many bad lucks. However, even if the kings were in the hands of Yang Guang, then Yang Guang could only tie the kings to the capital and hand them over to the Sui Emperor. It is certain that the kings will be stripped of their vassal titles, but they will not die. If we are captured, it is estimated that we will die at the hands of Yang Guang first. ”
"Sir, there are still hundreds of thousands of troops in the hands of the kings, is it possible that they can't break through the Hangu Pass?" Juden still couldn't believe it.
"The intrigue between the kings, a plate of scattered sand, most of them will run out of food, if they arrive in Shangluo, there will be news. It's just that our army has run out of food, and it will take at least 10 days to get out of the dense forest, but the generals will kill some mules and horses as military rations. The wounded and sick soldiers in the army should be discarded if they can, so as not to consume more food. Li Mi said with a gloomy face.
"Alas---" Yang Xuangan's father and son couldn't help but sigh when they heard it.
After the 10th, Yang Xuangan's troops who appeared on the edge of Shangluoping Valley were less than 5,000 people, and they finally walked out of the reckless primeval mountain forest for more than 1,000 miles after more than a month of jungle shuttles.
The Shangluo area is now part of the territory of Xiao Tong, the king of Liang in the Sui Dynasty. Because of Yang Xuangan's special identity, although the 5,000 men and horses led by him were like Huazi who fled, General Shang Luo still gave this useless man some help under the persuasion of Li Mi, and helped Yang Xuangan's remnants temporarily solve the food problem. For this reason, Yang Xuangan also wrote a letter in the name of his father to thank Xiao Tong, the king of Liang.
After a few days of recuperation outside Shangluo City, the whole army temporarily recovered some vitality. Under Li Mi's urging, the remnants of the army once again embarked on the road back to Nanyang.
At this point, Yang Xuangan finally escaped from Tongguan.
Yang No. 2 Courtyard on Wagang Mountain.
After looking at the information sent by the Military Intelligence Department in the Shangluo region, Yang Er shouted at the desk that it was a pity. But at the same time, I sincerely admire the tenacious vitality of Yang Xuangan and Li Mi like "Xiaoqiang".
Who can have the courage to venture into the inaccessible thousands of miles of primeval mountain forests?
"That's it! Even if he doesn't die, it will be difficult to fight against this king. Yang Er sat down helplessly, and looked through the military report sent by Li Jing. When he saw all the kings die in a fire, he couldn't help but be stunned.
"Brother Luo Xian, are you doing it clean? Don't tell the truth. ”
"Big brother, there are no outsiders in the entire inn, even one of the original innkeepers and the work in the store were all killed by Wei Chi Laohei, and one was turned into ashes in the fire."
"Hmmm! Well done. Wei Chigong's military rank was promoted by two levels, and he was rewarded again when the war in the Central Plains subsided. ”
"Huh! Thank you for promoting Lao Hei. "The first time Wei Chigong met Yang Er so closely, he was already excited, but now he can be promoted by the lord himself, and he can't help but be overjoyed.
"Huh! Excuse me, you deserve it. The military newspaper said that you also captured a female general named Ma Saifei before the battle? ”
"Big brother, it's just cheaper that this lieutenant is old and dark, and the younger brother should have been caught by himself. That female general was the wife of Meng Haigong, the king of Song Yi. Luo Cheng replied first.
"Huh! That Meng Haigong's wife also has some skills, and the general generals are not necessarily her opponents. Now that Meng Haigong is dead, this king will reward this Ma Sai Fei to General Wei Chi as his wife, okay? Yang Er smiled and said to Wei Chigong, who bowed his head and was silent.